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The Penguin Companion to American Literature

The Penguin Companion to American Literature

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The Penguin Companion to American Literature

by Malcolm Bradbury, Eric Mottram, Jean Franco (eds.)

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McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 384 pages, with a list of the authors, and two major sections: U.S.A. and Latin America. Laid out in columns, encyclopedia-style, with entries for individual writers and for tendencies in writing. 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8), dark blue cloth with red stripes and gold lettering/embellishment on spine, dark blue end papers. The book itself is in beautiful shape, tight, only slight soil to edges and fading to tinted top edge, text clean and unmarked. In original DJ, which has tears and chipping, and has been mended. Heavy, will incur shipping surcharge.

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Bookseller
Berthoff Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
WBB-58
Title
The Penguin Companion to American Literature
Author
Malcolm Bradbury, Eric Mottram, Jean Franco (eds.)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Poor
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Book Company
Date Published
1971
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
AMERICAN LITERATURE, REFERENCE
Bookseller catalogs
Literary history; Reference; Biography;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.

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